SURVEY OF U.S. HERBARIA

In June, Mary Barkworth sent a survey out to the 602 US herbaria listed in Index Herbariorum. In it she asked for current information on, among a few other things, the size of the collection and its progress in digitization.

The purpose of the survey is to find out how many active herbaria there are in the US, their size, and their progress in databasing and imaging their specimens. As of June 17, about 110 replies had been received.

Some of the contact information for these herbaria is old and some mailings have been returned as "address unknown" or "addressee no longer at XYZ". Dr. Barkworth and her assistant, Raquelle Sanchez, will be calling the non-responding institutions to determine whether the herbarium still exists and who the best contact person is. Some herbaria have been dispersed, closed, or become inactive. All the more reason for making those that are active freely available. Please contact Mary Barkworth at mary@biology.usu.edu or 435-797-1584 during business hours if you would like to report for your herbarium.

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CollapseNBII Staff and Partners to Participate in Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting
USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) staff and partners will participate in the United States Virtual Herbarium (USVH) Workshop and host a booth at this year’s Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, which will take place in Providence, RI, on July 31- August 4, 2010.  Ms. Elizabeth Sellers, NBII Botany Project, and Mr. Giri Palanisamy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will participate as members of the USVH Steering Committee and USVH Communications Infrastructure Task Force in the USVH Workshop.  Ms. Sellers will provide an overview of the new USVH Web site www.usvirtualherbarium.org, and Mr. Palanisamy will represent the Integrated Publishing Tool (IPT) as part of the NBII’s role as the U.S. Node to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Node managers Ms. Jennifer Carlino and Ms. Marcia NcNiff will represent the NBII’s contributions and participation in regional herbarium and collection networks, and Dr. Gerald Guala will represent the NBII-hosted Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

(Photo: Tropical waterlily (Nymphaeaceae). Credit: John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov.)
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Vegetation Characterization Products Now Available

The goal of the Vegetation Characterization Program  is to classify and map the vegetation communities of National Parks that have a natural resource component.

Complete documentation is currently available for sixty-seven park units and two U.S. Fish and Wildlife refuge units. The VCP is managed by the USGS Center for Biological Informatics in cooperation with the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program. The USGS Vegetation Characterization effort includes the management and upkeep of the VCP protocols, Web-based access to the standards, and the Web-based access to NPS Vegetation Characterization program finished products. (Theresa Singh, Houston, TX, 936-271-5324)

... for De Soto National Memorial:

USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Characterization Program (VCP) documentation for De Soto National Memorial has been completed and is available on the VCP Web site. Products include aerial photography - graphic of orthophoto mosaic, and spatial orthophoto data; project report - photointerpretation key, vegetation descriptions, vegetation key, photos of map class, and accuracy assessment; field data - graphic of field plots, plots field database, physical descriptive for plots; geospatial vegetation information - graphics of vegetation communities, geodatabase, and plot photos; metadata, and a link to NPS information about De Soto National Memorial.(March 2010)

... for Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument:

USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Characterization Program (VCP) documentation for Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument has been completed and is available on the VCP Web site. Products include aerial photography - graphic of orthophoto mosaic, and spatial orthophoto data; project report - photointerpretation key, vegetation descriptions, vegetation key, photos of map class, and accuracy assessment, and classification of the plant communities report; field data - graphic of field plots, spatial field plots data, plots field database, physical descriptive for plots and species list for plots; geospatial vegetation information - graphics of vegetation communities, spatial vegetation data, spatial boundary data and plots and AA photos; accuracy assessment information - graphic of accuracy assessment points, spatial AA points data, AA field database, and contingency matrix; metadata, and a link to NPS information about Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument.(March 2010)

... for Petrified Forest National Park:

USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Characterization Program (VCP) documentation for Petrified Forest National Park has been completed and is available on the VCP Web site. Products include aerial photography - graphic of orthophoto mosaic, and spatial orthophoto data; project report - photointerpretation key, vegetation descriptions, vegetation key, photos of map class, and accuracy assessment; field data - graphic of field plots, spatial field plots data, field database, physical descriptive for plots and species list for plots; geospatial vegetation information - graphics of vegetation communities, spatial vegetation data, spatial boundary data and plots and AA photos; accuracy assessment information - graphic of accuracy assessment points, spatial AA points data, and contingency matrix; metadata, and a link to NPS information about Petrified Forest National Park. (March 2010)

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